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Rezeph
Solid; a stone, (2 Kgs 19:12; Isa 37:12), a fortress near Haran, probably on the west of the Euphrates, conquered by Sennacherib.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- 2 Kings 19:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Telassar?
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.